ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,565,397, issued on March 3, was assigned to SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES LTD. (Osaka, Japan).
"Winding device and winding method" was invented by Takahiro Saito (Osaka, Japan), Iwao Okazaki (Osaka, Japan), Ryutarou Miyazaki (Utsunomiya, Japan), Yoshihiro Morimoto (Utsunomiya, Japan) and Masayuki Kato (Utsunomiya, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This winding device includes: a bobbin for winding an optical fiber, the bobbin being a striated body; a cover that covers the outer periphery of the bobbin, the cover having provided thereto a slit that is parallel to the axial direction of the bobbin, and the optical fiber being inserted th...